Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [adv] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was used as a public convenience for more than a hundred years . |
| 2 | The mist still limited visibility to less than a hundred yards and the fog-horn continued to blare at regular intervals . |
| 3 | He opened a shop there in 1961 and gradually took over other premises , including the castle , until today he has an annual turnover of more than a million second-hand books . |
| 4 | The Halifax figures , however , will be welcome news to more than a million homeowners . |
| 5 | The H-bomb , with an explosive capacity of more than a million tons of TNT , had fallen into the Atlantic Ocean off southern Spain . |
| 6 | Unless you have a very small conference of less than a hundred people avoid low ceilings ; it 's like being in a crowded rail commuter carriage and everyone feels oppressed and claustrophobic . |
| 7 | The post-void study revealed a , a residual volume of more than a hundred mils in about a third of patients , . |
| 8 | Such a sequence of failures is the nightmare of nuclear opponents but a situation on which the nuclear industry sees the remote probability of more than a million to one . |